Data's quest for Human-ness - 2

Hello Data

Lt. Cmdr. Data is an android. He (Some people might object calling an android a ‘he’ instead of an ‘it’- by the time you are done reading this, you will agree that he is not an it) looks humanoid, albeit with a slight olive-green tinge. He is one of the central characters of the popular science-fiction television series "Star Trek – The Next Generation". Played by Brent Spiner, a fabulously talented actor who performs amazingly well, one may add. Like all good androids (there is just one another android in one other episode – more about him later), he has superhuman strength, a humungous data-bank for a memory, and a positronic neural network for a brain. He is perfect in every sense of the word. He lacks the understanding of and ability to experience human emotions. He himself says he would gladly give up all his superior strengths to be human.